The Under Report by Eric Czuleger

Thom Shanker has been on the ground covering global conflict for over a decade. From Bosnia and Afghanistan to Iraq, he has seen how armies fight battles but politicians end wars. He reminds us of the responsibility...

Finance is the invisible foundation for statecraft but we rarely think about how it works or where it came from. In our first of a three part series on finance we take a deep dive into the origins of money and how it...

Power is all about controlling the one thing that everyone needs. Water is the most important thing in the world and anyone who could command the headwaters turned into a god. But water doesn’t always make dictators...

<p>Power is all about controlling the one thing that everyone needs. Water is the most important thing in the world and anyone who could command the headwaters turned into a god. But water doesn’t always make dictators...

<p>Modern history leads us to believe that it's impossible for countries to come to an agreement on anything, let alone everything. However, there was one time in history where every country in the world came together...

<p>We’re led to believe that peace is just the absence of war. The people who want us to believe that benefit from war. The reality is that the infrastructure of peace is being built all around us, we just don’t notice...

<p>The age of drone warfare has done something unexpected: it's driven soldiers underground. When everything above the surface can be watched, tracked, and targeted, the tunnel becomes the new trench. This week, The...

<p>The space around our planet is the most valuable real estate in the universe. But making it usable for mankind might also lock us into this planet forever if we mess it up. Today we’re doing a deep dive into the...

<p>The land beneath your feet tells you more about who you are than your astrological sign ever could. Power flows from the ground up. Society is built by mountains, rivers, and valleys as much as it is by laws and...

<p>Attention is the most important resource in the world and there is a war on for it. While conflict over oil grabs headlines, real power is about the stories we're convinced to fight for. Today's episode: how...

<p>Who are you afraid of? Maybe the better question is: Who benefits from your fear? Governments have made boogie men to control populations since the beginning of time because it’s a good way of keeping power in the...

<p>Agriculture allowed human beings to conquer the globe but it also locked us into a system of brittle hierarchies. The ultimate questions are who controls the surplus and who is controlled by it?</p><p><br></p><p>This...

<p>Logistics is the invisible architecture that runs the world. When it works, no one notices. But when it breaks, the entire world is in chaos. </p><p><br></p><p>This episode was written and read by Eric Czuleger and...

<p>War doesn't just consume drugs, it manufactures them. Methamphetamine powered the Blitzkrieg. A Holocaust-connected pharmaceutical company created the pill that became Syria's fifty-seven billion dollar narco-state...

<p>What is a country? Eric Czuleger has spent the better part of a decade living in unrecognized nations attempting to answer that question. This led to him writing You Are Not Here: Travels Through Countries That Don't...